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26 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

The MegaWave Radio Surveyor

T. Joseph W. Lazio, Evgenya Shkolnik, James Aguirre +40

Several Decadal-level questions in astrophysics, exoplanets, astrobiology, and cosmology can be addressed only at low radio frequencies inaccessible from Earth. The MegaWave Radio…

astro-ph.CO2026

Overview of 21cm Experiments at high redshift with SKAO

CD Science Working Group, Gianni Bernardi, Daniela Breitman +81

We provide an overview of the eight SKAO Science Book chapters that motivate the Epoch of Reionisation and Cosmic Dawn experiments with SKA-Low. We describe the individual SKA-Low…

astro-ph.IM2026

Scalable Bayesian data curation for next-generation radio experiments

S. A. K. Leeney, E. de Lera Acedo, W. J. Handley +42

Next-generation radio telescopes produce data volumes that preclude manual quality assessment, yet data curation remains essential for science. We present a general, fully automati…

astro-ph.IM2026

Optimisation of calibration sources for global 21-cm experiments: the REACH case

Adarsh Kumar Dash, Dominic Anstey, Harry T. J. Bevins +41

The spin-flip 21-cm signal from the Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionization is an essential probe of the conditions that led to the formation of the first luminous objects in the…

astro-ph.IM2026

Circuit Modeling for In Situ 21 cm Radiometer Calibration

Gary Vincent Charles Allen, Saurabh Pegwal, Dirk de Villiers +42

Recent experiments in cosmology, particularly those aimed at detecting the faint, redshifted, global 21 cm hydrogen line (depth < ~200 mK, z > 7.5), have imposed stringent new requ…

astro-ph.CO2026

The Signature of Strong High-Redshift Radio Backgrounds on the Cosmic Dawn 21-cm Bispectrum

Sudipta Sikder, Rajesh Mondal, Rennan Barkana +1

Measurements from the Absolute Radiometer for Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Diffuse Emission 2 (ARCADE-2) reveal a strong radio background in the GHz frequency range. Since the cosm…

astro-ph.CO2025

First Results from HERA Phase II

The HERA Collaboration, Zuhra Abdurashidova, Tyrone Adams +83

We report the first upper limits on the power spectrum of 21-cm fluctuations during the Epoch of Reionization and Cosmic Dawn from Phase II of the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Ar…

astro-ph.CO2025

The Signature of Sub-galactic Dark Matter Clumping in the Global 21-cm Signal of Hydrogen

Hyunbae Park, Rennan Barkana, Naoki Yoshida +3

It is thought that the Universe went through an early period known as the Dark Ages, during which primeval density fluctuations grew to form the first luminous objects, marking the…

astro-ph.CO2025

Probing small-scale dark matter clumping with the large-scale 21-cm power spectrum

Sudipta Sikder, Hyunbae Park, Rennan Barkana +2

The 21-cm line of hydrogen is the most promising probe of the Dark Ages and Cosmic Dawn. We combine hydrodynamical simulations with a large-scale grid in order to calculate the eff…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 3 cited

Narrowing the discovery space of the cosmological 21-cm signal using multi-wavelength constraints

Jiten Dhandha, Anastasia Fialkov, Thomas Gessey-Jones +6

The cosmic 21-cm signal is a promising probe of the early Universe, owing to its sensitivity to the thermal state of the neutral intergalactic medium (IGM) and properties of the fi…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 3 cited

Radiometer Calibration using Machine Learning

S. A. K. Leeney, H. T. J. Bevins, E. de Lera Acedo +35

Radiometers are crucial instruments in radio astronomy, forming the primary component of nearly all radio telescopes. They measure the intensity of electromagnetic radiation, conve…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 6 cited

Rapid and Late Cosmic Reionization Driven by Massive Galaxies: a Joint Analysis of Constraints from 21-cm, Lyman Line & CMB Data Sets

Peter H. Sims, Harry T. J. Bevins, Anastasia Fialkov +6

Observations of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) have the potential to answer long-standing questions of astrophysical interest regarding the nature of the first luminous sources an…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 20 cited

Exploiting synergies between JWST and cosmic 21-cm observations to uncover star formation in the early Universe

Jiten Dhandha, Anastasia Fialkov, Thomas Gessey-Jones +6

In the current era of JWST, we continue to uncover a wealth of information about the Universe deep into the Epoch of Reionization. In this work, we use a suite of simulations with…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 7 cited

The mass distribution of the first stars can be determined via the 21-cm signal

T. Gessey-Jones, N. S. Sartorio, H. T. J. Bevins +6

The formation of the first stars and the subsequent population of X-ray binaries represents a fundamental transition in the state of the Universe as it evolves from near homogeneit…

astro-ph.CO2025

Cosmological super-resolution of the 21-cm signal

Simon Pochinda, Jiten Dhandha, Anastasia Fialkov +1

In this study, we train score-based diffusion models to super-resolve gigaparsec-scale cosmological simulations of the 21-cm signal. We examine the impact of network and training d…

astro-ph.CO2025

Uncovering the Effects of Array Mutual Coupling in 21-cm Experiments with the SKA-Low Radio Telescope

Oscar S. D. O'Hara, Quentin Gueuning, Eloy de Lera Acedo +8

We investigate the impact of Mutual Coupling (MC) between antennas on the time-delay power spectrum response of the core of the SKA-Low radio telescope. Using two in-house tools -…

astro-ph.CO2024

Bayesian data analysis for sky-averaged 21-cm experiments with contamination from linearly polarised foreground

Emma Shen, Dominic Anstey, Marta Spinelli +2

The precise measurement of the sky-averaged HI absorption signal between 50 and 200 MHz is the primary goal of global 21-cm cosmology. This measurement has the potential to unravel…

astro-ph.CO2024

Classification of Radio Backgrounds at Cosmic Dawn and 21 cm Signal Confirmation Using Neural Networks

Sudipta Sikder, Anastasia Fialkov, Rennan Barkana

Several ongoing and upcoming radio telescopes aim to detect either the global 21 cm signal or the 21 cm power spectrum. The extragalactic radio background, as detected by ARCADE-2…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 5 cited

Understanding spectral artefacts in SKA-LOW 21-cm cosmology experiments: the impact of cable reflections

Oscar Sage David O'Hara, Fred Dulwich, Eloy de Lera Acedo +4

The Cosmic Dawn was marked by the formation of the first stars, and preceded the Epoch of Reionization (EoR), when the Universe underwent a fundamental transformation caused by the…

astro-ph.CO2024

Constraining the clustering and 21-cm signature of radio galaxies at cosmic dawn

Sudipta Sikder, Rennan Barkana, Anastasia Fialkov

The efficiency of radio emission is an important unknown parameter of early galaxies at cosmic dawn, as models with high efficiency have been shown to modify the cosmological 21-cm…

astro-ph.CO2023

On the Constraints on Superconducting Cosmic Strings from 21-cm Cosmology

T. Gessey-Jones, S. Pochinda, H. T. J. Bevins +5

Constraints on the potential properties of superconducting cosmic strings provide an indirect probe of physics beyond the standard model at energies inaccessible to terrestrial par…

astro-ph.CO2023

Constraining the properties of Population III galaxies with multi-wavelength observations

S. Pochinda, T. Gessey-Jones, H. T. J. Bevins +7

The early Universe, spanning 400,000 to 400 million years after the Big Bang (), has been left largely unexplored as the light from luminous objects is too faint t…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 8 cited

FlexKnot as a Generalised Model of the Sky-averaged 21-cm Signal at z ~ 6-30 in the Presence of Systematics

Emma Shen, Dominic Anstey, Eloy de Lera Acedo +1

Global 21-cm experiments are built to study the evolution of the Universe between the cosmic dawn and the epoch of reionisation. FlexKnot is a function parameterised by freely movi…

astro-ph.CO2023

FlexKnot and Gaussian Process for 21 cm global signal analysis and foreground separation

Stefan Heimersheim, Leiv Rønneberg, Henry Linton +2

The cosmological 21 cm signal is one of the most promising avenues to study the Epoch of Reionization. One class of experiments aiming to detect this signal is global signal experi…